Treatment planning methods, devices and systems

a technology of treatment planning and treatment planning, applied in the field of disease assessment and treatment planning, can solve the problems of slowed epidemiological or therapeutic research, hounsfield units, and use of certain quantitative approaches

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-04-26
UNIV OF IOWA RES FOUND
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In spite of the huge impact of this disease on the community, research regarding epidemiology, or therapeutic strategies, has been slowed because of the lack of a clinical package for objectively assessing the regional characteristics of the lung tissue.
Certain quantitative approaches have utilized only single first order measures and have largely been limited to mean lung density and assessment of the location of the lower 5th percentile cut-off on the lung density histogram (plotting number of pixels vs.
Hounsfield units), and have not been available in an easily usable format.

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[0309] Some (up to all) of the steps described in the sections above may be implemented in the form of software. The software may be stored on any suitable computer readable media, such as any suitable form of memory or data storage device, including but not limited to hard disks, removable magnetic disks, CDs, DVDs, optical disks, magnetic cassettes, flash memory cards, Bernoulli cartridges, USB drives, and the like. In such embodiments, the invention may be characterized as computer readable media having machine readable instructions for performing certain step(s).

[0310] Some (up to all) of the steps described in the sections above may be implemented using a computer having a processor (e.g., one or more integrated circuits) programmed with firmware and / or running software. Some (up to all) of the steps described in the sections above may be implemented using a distributed computing environment. In a distributed computing environment (e.g., a computer system), multiple computers ...

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Abstract

Treatment planning methods, devices and systems. One of the treatment planning methods includes displaying at least a portion of a set of lungs and one or more potential treatment regions; receiving a selection of a target treatment region from among the one or more potential treatment regions; and displaying one or more locations within the portion that are therapeutically linked to the target treatment region. Other treatment planning methods, devices and systems are included.

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CROSS-REFERENCE(S) TO RELATED APPLICATION(S) [0001] This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60 / 722,176, filed Sep. 30, 2005, the entire contents of which are expressly incorporated by reference.STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH [0002] This invention was made at least partially with government support under National Institute of Health grant number 1 R43 HL075953-01A1. The government has certain rights in the invention.BACKGROUND [0003] 1. Field of the Invention [0004] The present methods, devices and systems relate generally to the fields of disease assessment and treatment planning. [0005] 2. Description of Related Art [0006] Pulmonary emphysema (Russi and Weder, 2002; Sabanathan et al., 2003) is a chronic, common, debilitating, insidious, yet fatal, progressive disorder of the lungs, that is often related to smoking, but also has a strong familial association (Yim et al., 2004; Bolliger et al., 2004). A 1997 NIH health survey...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): C12Q1/00G06F19/00A61B5/00
CPCA61B19/50A61B19/52A61B2017/00809A61N2005/1074G06T7/0012G06T7/0081G06T7/0091G06T7/0097G06T2200/24G06T2207/10081G06T2207/20156G06T2207/30061G06T2207/30101A61B90/36A61B34/10G06T7/11G06T7/155G06T7/174
Inventor REINHARDT, JOSEPHGARBER, JOHNTSCHIRREN, JUERGSONKA, MILANMCLENNAN, GEOFFREYHOFFMAN, ERIC
Owner UNIV OF IOWA RES FOUND
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